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In 1784, Kentucky was estimated to have 4,000 Blacks. In 1790, the black population grew to 16% with 11,830 slaves and 114 freemen. Then in 1800, the population was up to 19% with 41,084 black residents. The freeman population also increased to 741 people within that decade.
Kentucky did not abolish slavery during the Civil War, as did the border states of Maryland and Missouri. However, during the war, more than 70% of slaves in Kentucky were freed or escaped to Union lines. [14] The war undermined the institution of slavery. Enslaved people quickly learned that authority and protection resided with the Union army.
Camp Nelson National Monument, formerly the Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park, is a 525-acre (2.12 km 2) national monument, historical museum and park located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States, 20 miles (32 km) south of Lexington, Kentucky. The American Civil War era camp was established in 1863 as a depot for the Union ...
Dec. 6, 1865: National ratification of 13th Amendment, which ends slavery in the United States. The amendment is ratified by 27 of the existing 36 states. Kentucky is not one of them. (Note from ...
Linda Blackford: On Juneteenth, remember where Black Kentuckians issued their own Emancipation Proclamation. More than 10,000 either enlisted in the Civil War on the Union’s side or trained at ...
John Rankin (February 5, 1793 – March 18, 1886) was an American Presbyterian minister, educator and abolitionist. Upon moving to Ripley, Ohio, in 1822, he became known as one of Ohio 's first and most active "conductors" on the Underground Railroad. Prominent pre-Civil War abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Weld, Henry Ward ...
Free Frank McWorter (c. 1777 – September 7, 1854) was an American born into slavery who bought his freedom in Kentucky and in 1836 founded the town of New Philadelphia in Illinois; he was the first African American to plat and register a town, and establish a planned community in the United States. [1] The New Philadelphia town site was ...
Section 25 of the Kentucky Constitution reads: “Slavery and involuntary servitude in this state are forbidden, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted